2021-03-10-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)

Summary

• AIP 2.0

Date: 10 Mar 2021 (12PM Los Angeles, 3PM New York, Tuesday at 7AM Sydney)

Attendees

• Sam Curren (Indicio) <sam@indicio.tech>
• Timo Glastra (Animo Solutions) <timo@animo.id>
• James Ebert (Indicio) <james.ebert@indicio.tech>
• Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>
• Troy Ronda (Troy Ronda) <troy.ronda@securekey.com>
• Kevin Griffin (Kevin Griffin) <kg@scoir.com>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

April 20-22 - IIW

June 8-10 Hyperledger Global Forum

Related Meetings Review

• Ursa - 
• SSI in IoT WG
• Indy Contributors - Every 2nd Tuesday 8am US/Pacific - CI/CD of Indy Node and Plenum, Ubuntu 20.04 release, indy-sdk ready
• Indy DID Method Tuesdays 7am Pacific - Last: The possibility of adding a data element to a NYM to enable full DIDDoc support, eliminating the need for finding related DID+ATTRIB.
• 2021-03-11 : Identity Implementers WG Call (9am MT / 4pm UTC) – Renata Toktar (Evernym) will give a presentation / demo on a new process called "ledger freeze" and how that works with Indy ledgers.
• DIF DIDComm WG - Monday's at Noon US/Pacific - Sam Curren (Mon) - DID Doc services, etc.
• Aries Bifold / Aries Mobileagent React Native - early community discussions
• TrustoverIP Saturn5 Interop Testing

Upcoming Releases and Work Updates

• Aries Protocol Test Suite
  • Instructions, docker added - Try It!
  • Issue, credential, and proof tests are merged.
  • esatus backchannel
  • OOB protocol testing added (phase 1)
  • Regular friday meetings, contact Keith Smith for details
• Aries Agent Test Harness
  • Added a new public status page to summarize the latest results of the interop testing (combinations of ACA-Py, Aries Framework .NET, Aries Framework Go and Aries Framework JavaScript): http://aries-interop.info/
    • Looking for more participants - Evernym, Aries-VCX, etc.
    • Looking for someone to add a Mobile Wallet Test Agent
      • Kiva looking to do this with mobile agent and mediator
• Aries Shared Components
  • now installable via pip; github actions build and test for Windows, Mac and Linux (manylinux)
  • indy-vdr - release 0.2.1  https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
  • indy-shared-rs - indy-credx release 0.2.3  https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-shared-rs
  • aries-askar (storage) - release 0.1.3, will be working on BBS+ and DIDComm v2 support  https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-askar
• Aries-CloudAgent-Python
  • Release 0.6.0 tagged and image posted.
  • In Progress:
    
    • BDD test suite of integration tests that supplement the AATH tests – different startup options, e.g. multi-tenancy, mediator, etc.
    • Credential Exchange V2 (0454) – almost done
    • Present-Proof v2
    • Shared Components: Fully functional branch that uses the shared libraries, not indy-sdk
  • Started:
    • Getting to W3C Verifiable Credential support with ZKP and Selective Disclosure
      • DHS SVIP JSON-LD Verifiable Credential exchange in Aries Protocols
    • Plans for this is outlined here: https://hackmd.io/@animo/acapy-bbs-2
• Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go
  • Released v0.1.6
  • Implementing UniversalWallet2020 APIs
• Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)
  • Horcrux gem for ActiveStorage (0.0.4)
    • moved to https://github.com/decentralized-identity/activestorage-horcrux
    • refactored to change blob key directly (instead of via Tempfile)
• Aries-Framework-DotNet (Tomislav)
  • Revocation intervals affecting search - fix submitted.
• Aries-Toolbox
  • Connections Update Complete
  • ACA-Py Toolbox Plugin updated to support ACA-Py 5.3
  • Dependency Updates
  • Converted to a web application by Robert Mitwicki - repo https://github.com/thclab/aries 
• Aries-SDK-Java
• Aries-Framework-JavaScript - Framework JS Meetings
  
  • Starting next week meetings will be held at Thursday 7:00 AM MST / 3:00 PM CET
• Aries-Bifold - Aries Bifold Meetings
  • Defined goals for the project
  • Working to merge Animo's usage of Aries-Framework-Javascript
    • Connections and receiving credential issuance
• Rich Schemas and W3C Verifiable Credentials (Brent & Ken)
  • Some work has been done to support the W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model specification
  • Modifications to use BBS+ LD sigs as a first step - early exploration.
• Aries-MobileAgent-Xamarin (Aries MAX) - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobileagent-xamarin
  • Ideas:
    • Automatic offer acceptance/managing credentials
    • Machine readable governance
• Ursa
  • Go wrapper proceeding nicely - https://github.com/hyperledger/ursa-wrapper-go/
  • Grand refactor in the next few months. Should not affect the external APIs. Will help future additions.

Agenda

• AIP Next
  • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/579 (Main AIP 2.0 PR)
    • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/596 - did:key
    • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/588 - oob / route coordination George Aristy
    • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/593 - JSON-LD Attachments Timo Glastra
    • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/595 - oob mime type Troy Ronda
    • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/587 - Envelope v2 Troy Ronda
    • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/issues/599 - Timo

Next Week

• Different topics - what should we be talking about? What should we be showing?
• RFC Housekeeping - how should we be tracking impls
• RFCs for Indy AnonCred attachments, JSON-LD attachments (at least) and perhaps BBS+ attachments.
• JWE Envelope discussion.
• Perhaps: What's Wrong with OOB and DID Exchange and what should we be doing? - George Aristy

Future Topics

• Schema interop - how to reuse a schema across different networks Robert Mitwicki(RFC in progress)
• Using WebSocket as a way to communicate back to the mobile/desktop wallet (Agent (services or user) as a proxy for communication between service and digital wallet) Robert Mitwicki 

Action items